Suggestions? - Network tool - graphical traceroute

[tekwyzrd]

One of the items I occasionally want to use is a visual tracerout program. That is, an application that will map out traceroute results on a map or globe. Unfortunately I have been unable to find anything other than the commercial app Visual Route that is active. The others like xtraceroute have been dead for years. Does anyone know of a foss traceroute mapping app for linux that is still active?

[Fitzcarraldo]

The only one that comes to mind is Nagios (http://www.nagios.org), and only because I read about it recently. Have not used it myself, though. Needs to run on an Apache server if I understand correctly. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for.

EDIT: GTrace looks more like what you're after:

http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/gtrace/

but not in Portage and no ebuild in the Gentoo Bugzilla either, so you'd have to create your own ebuild.

[tekwyzrd]

Unfortunately both gtrace and xtraceroute seem to be dead. The last gtrace version was version 1.0.0 beta released 11/5/99 and the last xtraceroute was version 0.9.1 released 4/25/03.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Looks like you'll either have to use one of the many good Windows graphical traceroute utilities or go for an online version such as:

http://www.logbud.com/visual_trace

Pity. Seems Linux is behind Windows on this one.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Depending on how keen you are, you could download the RPM of the beta of Path Analyzer Pro from here:

https://www.pathanalyzer.com/download.opp

and create your own ebuild for it (quite a few ebuilds actually use RPMs).



Looks quite useful.